Approximately 10 Unfinished Sewing Projects

by insectmyheart

Hairy pie-dish beetle, Helea perforata, Tenebrionidae (darkling beetles)

Found in Western Australia

Photos 1-3 by jmwatson and 4 (for scale) by cal-wood

Weevil (Pachyrhynchus davaoensis), family Curculionidae, Mindinao, Philippines

photograph by Frank Deschandol

Green Demon Rainbow Scarab (Phanaeus demon), family Scarabeaidae, Guerrero, Mexico

photograph by Eugenijus Kavaliauskas

AN ANGEL. I love skippers. Not a lesser dart, which is not found at all in NSW. But there are SO many skippers so I'd need really good photos to ID which species it is.

Wooah I LOVE those leaf veins! No offence to the butterfly who is also very lovely, but look at how the tips all join together to form a little scallop pattern just inside the edge!

And the shorter veins in the middle of the sections that just taper off! Fabulous! I've never seen that kind of vein pattern before.

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by @weevilwednesday on instagram

Jumping spider mimic planthoppers in the genus Rhotana

Photo 1 by tenebrionidfan, 2 by gancw1, 3 by budak, and 4 by deeqld

Princely Tiger Moth (Chrysocale principalis), family Erebidae, Guatemala

photograph by Helh LH

Io Moth (Automeris io), male, family Saturniidae, OK, USA

photograph by Susan Sanders

Thinking of becoming a guy that thinks wolves are the most badass and aspirational animal, but about ants. Like wearing t-shirts about being loyal to my Queen and training to bench 5x my bodyweight. Studying ant warfare. Posting shit like this

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by @florijnp on instagram

Lanternfly (Pyrops gunjii), family Fulgoridae, Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia

photograph by Nicky Bay

the term "phasmid," meaning "stick insect," comes from a latin word meaning "apparition" or "phantom," due to the creatures' ability to hide in plain sight, and then move around and scare people.

the largest phasmids likely remain undiscovered; the longest insect known to science was a phasmid from a species that remains formally unnamed and undescribed, even since being captured for the first time in china in 2014.

a female specimen of the quasi-mythical australian species of gargantuan stick insect was sought by a curator of museum victoria for three years before he encountered one, also in 2014. upon realizing what it was, he says, “I started screaming."

This fossil of a frog-legged beetle from Colorado is so perfectly preserved that you can still see the pattern on its wing cases! It was named Pulchritudo attenboroughi to honor David Attenborough.

Here's a digital reconstruction of how it would look with wings closed:

Source: Krell & Vitalli

Malaysian moon moth, Actias maenas, Saturniidae

Photographed by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook

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Blue Clipper (Parthenos sylvia cyaneus), family Nymphalidae, Sri Lanka

photograph by Ranmini Gunasekera